Trump's smears of Biden have only started: Can the former veep fight back?
Donald Trump's impeachment trial is all but over, with his acquittal virtually certain. But its effect...
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Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists
In a blog post published in November, a year before the 2020 election, Brian Burch, the...
The State of PolitiFact in 2019: A report to our readers
PolitiFact started as a politics news website in 2007, but these days, it feels more like a mission....
ANTI-VAXXER PARENTS DON'T WANT THEIR KIDS TO BE BITTEN BY VAMPIRES, RUSSIAN AD CAMPAIGN SUGGESTS
A new Russian ad campaign mockingly suggested that parents opposed to vaccinations are afraid to give...
Here’s how to fact-check your family at the Thanksgiving dinner table
Thanksgiving is a time for turkey, football, pie — and political arguments with your relatives....
Disinformation targets Republicans who criticize Trump or support the impeachment inquiry
Mitt Romney and the few other Republican lawmakers who have spoken out against Trump lately have become...
Two Groups Finance Over Half Of Facebook’s Anti-Vax Ads
The anti-vax movement has done a lot to derail one of the greatest achievements of...
Majority of anti-vaxx ads on Facebook are funded by just two organizations
The majority of Facebook ads spreading misinformation about vaccines are funded by two...
Facebook deleted pro-vaccination adverts on political grounds, study finds
The study, published in the journal Vaccine, was conducted by researchers at the University...
Will AI ever ‘understand’ satire?
A lot of nuances of writing are lost on the internet -- things such as irony.
That's why...